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A vulnerability in the ingress flow creation functionality of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the CPU to increase upwards of 100% util…

High CVSS 8.6
CVECVE-2018-0228
First seen2026-08-11 20:15 UTC
Disclosed2018-04-19 20:29 UTC
Last updated2026-08-11 20:15 UTC
Channel statusauto

Summary

A vulnerability in the ingress flow creation functionality of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the CPU to increase upwards of 100% utilization, causing a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected system. The vulnerability is due to incorrect handling of an internal software lock that could prevent other system processes from getting CPU cycles, causing a high CPU condition. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sen…

In-depth triage

No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).

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Sources

  • NVD DATABASE

Original Links

Timeline

  1. nvd_ingest NVD